I'm not going to automatically hate every new member they introduce into the extended RT/AH family but I could not care any less because none of them have been producing good content lately and the pandemic is barely an excuse.
I'll go re-visit Matt/Michael's Ocarina of Time randomizer and FuckFace from the pandemic era and that's it. FunHaus had some good content before Adam got kicked out and one of my favorite videos didn't even involve him at all but James and Elyse definitely aren't carrying the brand on their own.
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Could this be the final member before the inevitable shuttering of the FH offices? I hope so, because I have no idea who this fat loser is.
Was he in any videos? If not, I'd have no idea who he is.
I think it definitely speaks to the quality, that this channel started with 3 gym bros unafraid of making edgy but funny jokes to being overrun with fats and queers.
The decline of FH happened so fast. Around the time Lawrence got a GF that worked at blizzard and they all became really sanctimonious. Super obnoxious. Spoole era was the best.
The decline of FH happened so fast. Around the time Lawrence got a GF that worked at blizzard and they all became really sanctimonious. Super obnoxious. Spoole era was the best.
They were gold for me until a certain point when Elyse decided that trying to be funny in videos was sexist, and they cut back on their edgy humor. I'd mark it as the time they hired Alanah.
I just watched one of their older videos where they're making up racial slurs for people from different planets in which aliens from Jupiter became jupes, and aliens from Neptune were labeled neppers. It's sad to see what they became
Edit: Found it, turns out they changed the name from "GREEN LIVES MATTER" to some dumb among us reference
Right? I was just watching their old content and you can really notice the difference. In one they were making fun of handicaps, then all of a sudden she refused to do a deaf person's accent.
Right? I was just watching their old content and you can really notice the difference. In one they were making fun of handicaps, then all of a sudden she refused to do a deaf person's accent.
if the contain has Ryan in it and no Charlotte, I'll watch it. Anything else I skip now.
Right? I was just watching their old content and you can really notice the difference. In one they were making fun of handicaps, then all of a sudden she refused to do a deaf person's accent.
The decline of FH happened so fast. Around the time Lawrence got a GF that worked at blizzard and they all became really sanctimonious. Super obnoxious. Spoole era was the best.
For me I always saw Bruce, Adam and James as the true core. As long as they remained intact it could still be good. So when Bruce left it was over and with Adam gone too, no chance.
Edit: Speaking of Bruce. He is currently hosting something on the twitchgaming channel for E3 and it's so bad and it's depressing to see him doing this.
For me I always saw Bruce, Adam and James as the true core. As long as they remained intact it could still be good. So when Bruce left it was over and with Adam gone too, no chance.
Edit: Speaking of Bruce. He is currently hosting something on the twitchgaming channel for E3 and it's so bad and it's depressing to see him doing this.
I'll accept any thunks and puzzles I get for this one, but this whole trend of purging "problematic" gaming comedy makes me think of the cyclical cultural cycles of the world.
Like, in the 1950s you had standup comedians working squeaky clean until Lenny Bruce came along and did his dirty comedy which was super popular and the audiences loved it. But he caught a lot of shit, being put on trial for obscenity for his comedy club performances, and having literal police presence at his shows to arrest him on stage for just telling his dirty comedy. And he only appeared on TV like 6 times in total, despite his huge popularity.
But going through all that hardship kinda paved the way for the future dirty comics like Richard Pryor and George Carlin, who in turn inspired pretty much all of the major comedians today.
I feel that groups like FunHaus and RoosterTeeth had the real opportunity a couple years back to leverage the fact that they could still stand (relatively) without relying on YouTube ads by leveraging First Memberships and their site to stick to their guns and do the kind of edgy comedy that a huge market segment craves that is censored and demonetized on Youtube. Like, the initial success of FunHaus was largely in part to their willingness to push the line when it came to their jokes. If they censor themselves down to just woke, they're in the same pool as a billion other dime a dozen youtubers chasing youtube monetization. Imagine if RT/AH/FH/etc. kept the humor as it was years ago, but uploaded the "bleep out the stuff that will get us demonetized" version to youtube, but had the uncensored version on their site behind the paywall. Or hell, fix the video player and have it on their site open with independently sourced ads.
I feel like by not staying true to their original culture, they were always destined to fail as a company. I was listening to a podcast where a person in a completely different industry was speaking about achieving success as a company. And he said one of the key things to do is to figure out what your core values as a company are. Things that you are willing to stick to no matter what, that you will never compromise on, no matter what the situation. Take a good long time to figure out what those are, and write them down. Commit to them. And then, every so often, go back and review the core values and see if you're sticking to them. Especially if things start going sideways, because you'll almost always find that when things are going sideways, it's because you've fell off the track on at least one tenant of your core values, and once you work back to maintaining that core value, it will right the ship.
I couldn't even imagine any core values that RoosterTeeth holds, even the ones they might want to proclaim they have, so let me take a crack at some of them.
"Be Inclusive to the LGBTBBQ"? Hmm, remember when Kdin would appear in Let's Plays (and for a time, let's build's) way back when? He wasn't bad on the mic or the controller, to be honest. But suddenly when he goes troon, boom, straight to the editors room, and suddenly no more appearances. Gay representation? They had that one guy on Always Open that Barbara basically used to act as the stereotypical catty gay bestie, like out of a 1990s stereotype. And all the "lesbians" at RT were inevitably "claim being bi for attention" types, or lipstick lesbians who magically decided after a year or two that they were actually "Bi" but exclusively date men for some reason now. If appealing to the gay audience is one of their core values, they've been lazy and failed pretty hard on it. Even the soulless big corp I work for does the bare minimum that they do, which is throw a rainbow on the logo for a month and put out some copy saying "gay good, beating gays bad".
What else, "Be more inclusive to the BIPOC?". Well, rather than just saying 'here's our content, make black people like it', they could have trying making content that appealed to the audience they wanted to appeal to. Sports games and FGC are huge in the black scene. Hell, at one point they had TwoBestFriends under their Let's Play umbrella, with Woolie Madden, a massive black otaku with a love of fighting games. They had him over with Achievement Hunter one time, ever. With all the failed projects they've had, they could have easily made a FGC or sports game splinter group, and fostered content that way, and organically brought black people into the content fold. No, instead they think adding one half black half french girl to a group of gooney beard men playing dorky fuckin minecraft every week is going to somehow make their corny content somehow palatable to that segment. And the core RT stuff? Not even middle class whites want to listen to upper class whites complain about minor inconveniences in air travel, or buying a Testla. So throwing a black person into the middle of the podcast but keeping everything else the same is still going to be shit. So, they've failed that one as a core value as well.
Core values like "put your audience first", obvious failure on that one. Also, "Put your employees first", huge fail on that one two. Shit, even the soulless values like "Maximize profit" or "Maximize exposure", fails on both counts. They're an utter failure of a business because they never really had any core values, or if they did they abandoned them years ago.
